Anybody have a good approach for alphabetizing 5000 names in a .txt file separated by commas?

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woodrow73 · Answer

I suppose I could make 5000 arrays, and then..

woodrow73 · Answer

I already took all the quotations out of the txt document, and made a method to calculate a number which = value of each name (mark = 13 + 1 + 18 + 11) multiplied by it's place on the list (if 5000'th name, multiply 43 by 5000).

That works elegantly with a list of names- though for this problem I'm looking to alphabetize them first.  Any tips when using arrays?  I have yet to learn arrays in depth yet

anonymous · Answer

There are loads of sorting algorithms Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm

e.mccormick · Answer

Looked at Radix sort?  You make an array, vector, etc, of them all, then up to 1 per letter a to z.  Based on the first letter, you dump from the first array into sub arrays.  Then you just need to sort the A array using the second letter... or whatever method you choose.  Basically this is a way of breaking the large problem into several smaller ones.